عرض العناصر حسب علامة : الاقتصاد

تسعى الأنظمة العالمية دائماً إلى اتخاذ التدابير الكفيلة بتوفير أحسن الشروط المنسابة والملائمة لنمو الاقتصاد على وجه العموم، والجانب المالي والمصرفي على الخصوص، إذ أصبح هذا الأخير يمثل الجزء الأعظم والركيزة الأساسية لهذه الأنظمة لما تحتله من مكانة خاصة وأنها تساهم في عملية استثمار المشاريع الكبرى.

يعتبر عجز الموازنة العامة من أهم المسائل والقضايا التي يولي لها الباحثون اهتماماً كبيراً في دول العالم المختلفة، لأن نجاح هذه الدول يقاس بمدى نجاح سياستها المالية والاقتصادية والاجتماعية. 

بعد عقود من التوقف في مختبرات الأبحاث، أصبح الذكاء الاصطناعي (AI) جاهزًا للظهور في أوقات الذروة، مما يؤدي إلى تغيير إن لم يكن تعطيل جميع قطاعات الاقتصاد التي تولد الكثير من البيانات (البيانات الضخمة)، من التكنولوجيا إلى التمويل والاتصالات والطاقة والرعاية الصحية، التنقل أو التصنيع.

معلومات إضافية

  • المحتوى بالإنجليزية After decades stuck in research labs, artificial intelligence (AI) is ready for prime-time, transforming if not disrupting all the sectors of the economy that generate lots of data (big data), from tech to finance, communications, energy, healthcare, mobility or manufacturing.

    More than most other industries, accounting hasn’t seen much innovation since the creation of double-entry bookkeeping - a process of recording both profits and losses - and considered one of the greatest advances in the history of business and commerce.

    That was over 500 years ago!

    However, the good news is that applying AI and machine learning technologies to bookkeeping, is becoming a reality with most of the major accounting software vendors (Intuit, OneUp, Sage, and Xero) currently offering capabilities to automate data entry, reconciliations and sometimes more.

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    In our upcoming research report on the future of accounting, we expect that by 2020, accounting tasks - but also tax, payroll, audits, banking… - will be fully automated using AI-based technologies, which will disrupt the accounting industry in a way it never was for the last 500 years, bringing both huge opportunities and serious challenges.

    Artificial intelligence will not eliminate accountants

    “Having machines to do all these tedious and repetitive tasks could sound scary for many accountants because they are also very time-consuming and thus very lucrative,” explained Stephanie Weil, CEO of Accounteam, a Silicon Valley-based accounting firm. “However, if the AI system is well configured, it can eliminate accounting errors that are generally hard to find and thereby reduce our liability and allows us to move to a more advisory role.”

    In an upcoming research study, we also tested the automation capabilities of 4 of the most popular AI-enabled cloud-accounting solutions available in the market today (OneUp, QuickBooks Online, SageOne, and Xero) and rank them against our Accounting Automation Index (AAI) which evaluates the accuracy of their AI engines to automatically recognize transactions coming in from bank feeds and generate the correct accounting without any user intervention.

    OneUp proved to be the most effective with an Automation Index rate of 95% after 5 months of use, followed by QuickBooks Online (77%), Xero (38%) and SageOne (30%).

    Despite being very promising, the accuracy of the machine learning algorithms used in most of today's solutions still needs to significantly improve in efficiency to avoid accounting errors and really fulfill their promise of automation.

تهدف الدراسة الى معرفة أثر استخدام المعايير المالية لمحاسبة الاستدامة (معيارFNO101 ) على تحسين مستوى الافصاح المحاسبى للتقارير المالية وتعزيز ثقة المستثمرين من خلال توفير البيانات المالية وغير المالية التي تساعد المستثمرين في عملية اتخاذ القرارات و تحسين عملية الاستثمار وجذب رؤوس الأموال

معلومات إضافية

  • البلد مصر
الثلاثاء, 20 سبتمبر 2022 08:10

التخطيط الاستراتيجي وقت الازمات

لم تقم التكنولوجيا بتزويدنا بكرة بلورية بعد، لذلك لا يمكن لأحد ان يرى المستقبل ولكن بالنسبة للذين يشغلون مناصب قيادية مالية من الضروري ان نجعل التخمينات الأكثر تعليماً ممكنة وأن يتم تصحيحها في كثير من الأحيان

استهدف هذا البحث دراسة مدى تأثير إدماج المعلومات المحاسبية عن التنوع البيولوجي وخدمات النظم الإيكولوجية في نظام معلومات المحاسبية الإدارية على زيادة فعالية عمليات إتخاذ القرار ودعم الاستدامة التنافسية لمنشآت الأعمال

تمثل هدف القضية البحتية المطروحة من قبل الدراسة الحالية: في تقديم أدلة تفسيرية وقرائن عملية مبكرة من بيئة سوق الأسهم المصري، للعواقب الاقتصادية لمستوى جودة الإفصاح وفقاً للتقارير المتكاملة في عدة نواحي محاسبية قبل التطبيق الإلزامي لتلك التقارير في بيئة الأعمال المصرية.

معلومات إضافية

  • البلد مصر

في جميع أنحاء البلاد، تواجه المنظمات غير الربحية تحديات مالية غير مسبوقة عندما تكون خدماتها في أمس الحاجة إليها.

نشر في إنفوجرافيك

بالنسبة للمحاسبين المهنيين، تزيد مشكلات الصحة العقلية من مخاطر عدم تحديد الأخطاء في التقارير المالية أو اكتشاف مؤشرات الاحتيال.

معلومات إضافية

  • المحتوى بالإنجليزية The following is a contributed piece from Russell Guthrie, CFO of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). Opinions expressed are author's own.

    The coronavirus pandemic has put a long-overdue spotlight on mental health. Clinical studies have found a strong correlation between pandemic-related anxiety and behaviors, such as hopelessness or substance abuse, that companies cannot afford to ignore. Implementing an organizational framework to support mental health is not only the right thing to do, it's smart for business. With the potential to alleviate human and financial costs, support for mental health should be seen as core to the finance function’s role in promoting sustainable value creation.

    In 2019, the World Health Organization estimated that mental health issues cost the global economy upward of $1 trillion per year. In the wake of the past year, that cost is likely to increase considerably, reinforcing the need for mental health to be a key priority for employers and organizations worldwide.

    Addressing mental health successfully, however, will require the involvement of the entire C-suite — not just HR, and not just the CEO. The finance function must be a pivotal part of the conversation both in supporting the adoption of company initiatives and in examining the cultural values of the accountancy and finance profession globally.

    Long-term growth and value creation
    Creating a culture of understanding must be a critical priority for CFOs. Failing to care for employees can mean falling behind as an organization, particularly in sectors where a company’s best asset is its human capital. A 2020 Gallup survey found that two-thirds of full-time workers polled were facing burnout at least some of the time, and those people were three times more likely to look for another job. It’s both more humane and more cost-effective to support your talent’s well-being rather than risk a mass exodus and face the high price of attrition — especially if you have developed a reputation for burning out your employees.


    Russell Guthrie
    Courtesy of IFAC

    Effectively addressing mental health by establishing the appropriate infrastructure to support employees can also play a determinant role in attracting and acquiring new talent. According to a recent report by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Generation Z — the group of 18-25-year-olds entering the workforce during the pandemic — cites mental wellbeing as a top priority when seeking employment.

    CFOs must be advocates for the crucial relationship between employee mental health and a company’s bottom line. Fatigue, burnout and other signals of strained mental health stand in opposition to the creativity, collaboration and stamina required to stoke growth and resiliency within companies.

    A unique threat
    The finance function — and, more specifically, accountancy profession — is innately people-centered, relying on equal parts technical and non-technical capabilities. Professional accountants, in particular, are responsible for critically reviewing information and large sets of data to ensure accuracy and compliance with laws and regulations, as well as evaluating conflicts of interest — a job that demands mental acuity, attention to detail and good judgement. Unsurprisingly, when people are under mental strain, it is increasingly difficult to focus on the task at hand.

    For a professional accountant this may heighten the risk of not identifying errors in financial reports or impact one’s ability to spot indicators of fraud, both of which can have far-reaching consequences. It’s not enough, however, to recognize what is at stake. Leaders have to promote a culture that will mitigate those risks.

    By nature, the accountancy profession is built on the expectation of perfection. Working against a standard of excellence — with little room for error — professional accountants face numerous internal and external pressures. And particularly now, as the global economy recovers from the impacts of COVID-19, professional accountants are facing increasing stress as the institutions they support focus on rebuilding.

    Such high expectations create an environment ripe for the deterioration of mental health. This, coupled with the general stigma surrounding mental health, often results in hesitation to recognize or address fatigue, depression, or any other mental health issues.

    Mental health must be included among the tenets of ethical and good business performance. A robust financial system is the bedrock of any thriving economy, and the people who uphold the rigor of high-quality accounting have to be a top priority.

    Building the infrastructure
    Mental health must be considered part of an organization’s environmental, sustainability and governance (ESG) strategy and approached as would the provision of any other basic human right. Just as global standards are a critical vehicle for reaching sustainability goals, a similarly rigorous approach will help companies, both large and small, establish the necessary infrastructure to properly support employee well-being.

    The right response will likely look different from region to region and from organization to organization, but the essential first step is simply making mental health part of the ongoing dialogue of the organization. From there, organizations must deploy initiatives for supporting employees and their ability to perform.

    This will likely mean rethinking normalized processes to identify existing threats to well-being and potential barriers to care. For instance, some companies will need to reconsider the relentless focus managers place on productivity. Others will have to reevaluate insurance plans to consider coverage of mental health treatments. They should look to institute mental health literacy programs and leverage outside expert resources to empower employees to prioritize mental health and support those in their communities looking to do the same. Ultimately, leadership needs to be highly engaged in this effort. Successfully shifting corporate culture to prioritize mental well-being starts at the top.

    While it’s not solely up to CFOs and the finance function to champion new and expanded norms for operating within the current reality, they are essential to creating a positive space to discuss and address employees’ mental health. It’s mission critical if we want to ensure businesses continue to operate as productively, sustainably, and ethically as possible.

من المتوقع أن ترتفع رسوم التدقيق بنسبة 62٪ هذا العام

معلومات إضافية

  • المحتوى بالإنجليزية Clients anticipate that audit fees will increase in 2021 due to the impact of inflation, COVID-19, acquisitions and divestitures, according to a survey by Gartner.

    The survey found that 62% of the companies polled are expecting audit fee increases this year, but that may be offset by technology savings. Organizations that automate at least 25% of their internal controls paid 27% lower audit fees on average, according to Gartner’s survey of 166 publicly traded and privately held companies. Of the respondents, 81% used a Big Four audit firm. Of the 166 organizations surveyed, Gartner analyzed 124 for the impact that internal controls automation had on the amount they ultimately paid in audit fees.

    The survey revealed the steadily increasing amounts of audit fees, exacerbated by the inflationary pressures that have affected so many sectors of the economy this year as the U.S. and the rest of the world struggle to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic also accelerated the shift to technologies like remote audits over the past year, and the increasing use of automation for audits and internal controls as many auditors worked from home and away from their offices.
    Companies with fewer than 50 controls, and more than 25% of them automated, reported 52% lower audit fees relative to ones with less than 25% of their controls automated. In comparison, companies with 50 to 250, as well as more than 250 controls and more than 25% automated, showed 27% lower audit fees.

    “With audit fees increasing significantly, finance leaders should take note that organizations with higher levels of internal control automation saw substantially lower external audit fees on average,” said Ashwani Gupta, director in the Gartner Finance practice, in a statement Tuesday. “The biggest decreases were seen in organizations using between 1 to 50 controls, suggesting that getting internal control automation started has potential cost benefits when it comes to audit. Automation of internal controls can play a role in not only reducing financial reporting and audit risks but also audit costs. As organizations invest in internal controls automation it will likely become a prominent argument for audit fee reductions in the future."

    Audit fee spiked the most last year in the banking and insurance sectors, with 69% of respondents in each category reporting increases. Financial services companies have more complex accounting processes and financial reporting exposures needing more auditor hours. Insurance companies also experienced some of the highest number of internal controls relative to companies in other industries.

    On the other hand, the technology and telecom sector showed the lowest impact on fees, with only 41% of respondents reporting increases for 2020. The companies that did report fee increases most often indicated they were sizable, with 22% of overall respondents reporting “significant” audit fee increases of 6% or more, compared to the fees paid in 2019.

    The main factors driving audit fee increases ranged from inflation to COVID-19 related, but organizations that negotiated on audit fees and made a strong case with their primary auditing firm were able to get a flat fee or a lower than expected audit fee increase. Of the respondents who attempted to negotiate their fees, 45% said their fees declined by over 6%, while half were able to cut their fees by between 3 to 6%.
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